Department of Psychology, University of Reading, England, UK.
Conscious Cogn. 2011 Dec;20(4):1175-82. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.02.013. Epub 2011 Mar 12.
This study investigated whether temporal clustering of autobiographical memories (AMs) around periods of self-development (Rathbone, Moulin, & Conway, 2008, 2009) would also occur when imagining future events associated with the self. Participants completed an AM task and future thinking task. In both tasks, memories and future events were cued using participant-generated identity statements (e.g., I am a student; I will be a mother). Participants then dated their memories and future events, and finally gave an age at which each identity statement was judged to emerge. Dates of memories and future events were recoded as temporal distance from the identity statement used to cue them. AMs and future events both clustered robustly around periods of self-development, indicating the powerful organisational effect of the self. We suggest that life narrative structures are used to organise future events as well as memories.
本研究探讨了自传体记忆（AMs）是否会围绕自我发展时期（Rathbone、Moulin 和 Conway，2008、2009）进行时间聚类，当想象与自我相关的未来事件时也是如此。参与者完成了 AM 任务和未来思维任务。在这两个任务中，记忆和未来事件都是通过参与者生成的身份陈述来提示的（例如，我是一名学生；我将成为一名母亲）。然后，参与者为他们的记忆和未来事件标注日期，最后给出他们认为每个身份陈述出现的年龄。记忆和未来事件的日期都被重新编码为与提示它们的身份陈述的时间距离。AMs 和未来事件都围绕自我发展时期强烈聚类，表明自我具有强大的组织效应。我们认为，生活叙事结构用于组织未来事件以及记忆。
